A.

After dead post and body posts, 55.
Air and water, 1. Ventilation, 3. Com-
position of air, 4. Its expansion and
contraction, 12.
Air pumps, 34.
Anchoring, 356. Mooring, 357. Foul
hawse, 362. Clearing hawse, 363. Moor-
ing swivel, 365. To put the swivel on
after mooring, 365. Securing cables,
367. Unmooring, 367. Foul anchor,
369. Anchoring, 371. Single anchor,
372. Creeping for anchors, 374.

Car-
rying an anchor out by boat, 374.
Stream anchor, 375. Carrying anchor
by boat when the ship is ashore, 376.
Heaving off, 378. Carrying anchors
with boats, 378. Restowing waist an-
chors, 379. To show the waist anchor
with the davits, 380. Striking lower
yards and topmasts, 380.

Anchors, 215. Stocks, 215. Porter's an-
chors, 215. Rodgers', 215. Jury an-
chors, 217, Screw anchors, 218. Waist
anchor, 229. Bower anchor, 230.
Stream anchors, 231. Anchoring, 356.
Aneroid barometer, the, 18.
Angle blocks, 24.

Arms, small, weight and dimensions
of, now in use in the British service,
259.

Artillery. See Ordnance.

Atmosphere, depth of the, on the surface
of the earth, 3. Mode of ascertaining
the weight of the, 16.

Axis of a gun, 249.

Azote, or nitrogen, 2.

Bill boards, 44,
Blacking down, 195.

Blocks, 143. Clump, 143. Shoulder,
143. Fiddle, 143. Sister, 143. Iron
stropped, 143. Hanging, tye, and
quarter, 144. Cat, 144. Jeer, 144. The
language of blocks, 144. Stropping,
144. Gun tackle blocks, 144. Table
of size of rope stropping, 145. Weight
of wooden blocks, 145. Table of size and
weight of purchase blocks, &c., 146.
Hooks, 146. Thimbles, 146. Metal
blocks, 146. Clue-garnet, 176. Brace-
blocks, 176, 178. Lift-blocks, 176, 178.
Leech line and slab line blocks, 176.
Peak halyard blocks, 187. Reef tackle
blocks, 190. Tack and lower halyard
blocks, 195.
Blue lights, 254.
Boats, clinker, carvel, and diagonal, 263.
Value of, 263. Cost of repair of, 264.
Weights and tonnage of boats by
builder's measurements, 265. Coppering
a 42 foot pinnace launch, 266. Hoisting
in and stowing boom boats, 266. Hand-
ling boats, 341. Towing, 349. Salut-
ing, 350. Boats detached, 350. Hook-
ing on, for hoisting, 353.

Bobstays, 154. Bobstay collar, 149.
Inner bobstay collar, 153. Setting up
bobstays, 155.

Body post, and after dead post, 55.
Bolsters, 115.

Bolts, 38, Table of relative adhesion of,
39.

Books, religious, in store, 240.

Boom-boats, hoisting in and stowing,
266.

Boom-sheets, 186. Boom mainsails, 187.
Bending, 297.

Booms, studding-sail, 192. Lower, 193.
Bow-lines, fore, 189. Fore-top, 191.
Maintop, 191.

Bowsprit, the, 115. The bed, 115. The
howsing, 115. The bee-seating, or
head, 115. Caps, 119. Handling a bow-
sprit with our own resources, 129.
Bowsprit shroud collar, 149. Rigging,
151. The saddle, 151. Rope gammon-
ing, 151. Man ropes, 151.
The stage,
151. Inner bobstay collar, 151. Bob-
stays, 154. Bowsprit shrouds, 154. Cap
bobstay, 154. The bumpkin, 154. Or-

Coffer dam, 26.

Coir rope, 136.

Collisions, 394.

Compass, the, 335.
Compressors, 47.
Conduct book, 327.
Congreve rockets, 255.

Construction of ships, 22. Docks, 22.
Angle-blocks, 24. Caissons, or floating
dams, 24. The slip, 24. The cradle,
24. The patent slip, 26. The graving
dock, 26. The coffer dam, 26. Float-

ing docks, 27. Timber used in ship-
building, 28. Mechanical properties
of materials used in construction, 29.
Tables of weight of substances used,
35. Bolts, 38. Drawings of a vessel,
39. The keel, 41. Stern, 41. Knight-
heads, 41. Stern-post, 41. Dead-
wood, 41. Keelson, 41. Floors, 41.
Frame of timbers, 41. Main frame, 42,
Beams, 42. Side keelsons, 42. Steps.
43. False keel, 43. Gripe, 43. Lim-
bers, 43. Planking, 43. Channels, 44.
Bill boards, 44. Cat head, 44. Head-
knees, 44. Decks, 44. Riding bits, 44.
Ports' sides, 44. Capstan, 45. Com-
pressors, 47. Scuppers, 47. Hawse-

bucklers, 47. Hold, 47. Magazines,
47. Engine room, 48. Caulking, 48.
Coppering, 48. Figures on the stern
and rudder, 49. The rudder, 49. Rudder
chocks, 49. Figure head, 50. Pumps,
52. Fire engine, 53. Chain pumps, 53.
Massie's pump, 54. Bilge pumps, 54.
The body post and after deadwood, 55.
Measurement for tonnage, 56. Amount
of materials in a 120-gun ship, 57.
Coppering, 48. Sheathing, 48. Copper
sheets, 49. Coppering, 42.
Foot pin-
nace launch, 266.

Courses, bending, 294.

taking in, 404, 406.

Courses, hauling down, 188.

Cradle, the, 24.

Cracking on, 390.

Crane, the, 106.

Creeping for anchors, 374.

Cross jack yard, rigging, 177.

Reefing and

Cross-trees, lower, 119, 149. Top-mast,

121. Rigging, 167.

"Cutting out "the rigging, 148.

Peak, 186. Signal, 187. Jib, 187. Fly-
ing jib, 187. Fore-top-mast staysail, 187.
Hammocks, 321.

Handling the ship, 382. Casting, 384.

Tacking, 386. Wearing, 389. Crack-
ing on, 390. Taken aback, 391. Man
overboard, 391. Taking a ship in tow
under sail, 392, Warping, 393. Shaking
out reefs, 393. Fore and aft sails, 393.
Upper sails, 393. Taut gear, 394.
Deadening way, 394. Collision, 394. Set-
ting studding sails, 395. Taking in stud-
ding sails, 395. Taking in sail, 396. Reef-
ing topsails, 398. Setting courses, 399.
Boxing off, 399. Taking in the driver,400.
Taking the jib in, 401. Sending top-gal-
lant masts and yards down,401. Weather
brace carried away, 402. Topsail brace
and parrel carried away, 403. Top-gal-
lant brace and parrel carried away, 404.
Preventer braces, lifts, and clue lines,
404. Reefing topsails and courses, 404.
Taking in a course, 406. Taking in a
topsail when blowing hard, 407. Send-
ing up a topsail in bad weather, 408.
Sending a topsail up reefed, 409.
bending sails, 410. Shifting top-gallant

Un-

masts, 410. Shifting top-masts, 411.
Shifting jibboom, 412. Rudder gone,
413. Landing the rudder, 414. Slack
lower rigging, 415. Swifting in rigging,
416. Cutting away masts, 416. Cast-
ing rigging adrift, 416. To get a lower
yard down inside the rigging, 416.
Club hawling, 417. Heaving down, 417.
Hawse bucklers 47.

Hawser-laid rope, 134.
Hawsers, 134.

Head-earring strops, 176, 178.
Head knees, 44.

Head sails, 296.

Heaving down, 417.

Hemp cables, 232.

Hold, the, 47.

Inclined plane as a mechanical power, 104.
Indian rubber, vulcanised, 34.
Inspection, 340.

Iron and wood in ship-building, compa-
rative excellence of, 10. Strength of
cast-iron, 30. Tensile force of wrought
iron, 30. Malleable iron plates, 34.
Iron ordnance, proof charges of, 251.
Jackstays, 176, 178, 187.

Jib, taking in the, 401.

Jeer blocks at the mast head, 173.
Jib-boom, 173. Whiskers, 174. Flying
jib-boom, 174. Shifting, 412.
Jib-halyards, 187. Flying, 187.
Jib-stay, 173.
Jib-traveller, 173.

K.

Keel, the, 41. False, 43.
Keelson, 41. Side keelsons, 42.
Knight-heads, 41.

Knots and splices, 196. Wall knot, 199.
To double wall, 200. To double crown,
201. Stopper knot, 202. Shroud knot,
202. French shroud, 202. Buoy rope,
203. Various knots, 204, 205, 211, 212.
Matthew Walker's knot, 206. Single
diamond, 206. Double diamond, 207.
Sprit sail sheet, 207. Turk's head, 209.
Salvagee, 210. Grummet, 213. Round
seizing, 213. Throat seizing, 214.

L.

Lanyards, reeving the, 161.
Lead lines, weight of, 319.
Leech line blocks, 176.
Lever, or hand spike, the, 90.

Magazines, the. 47,

M.

Main top-mast staysail, 188.
Main top-mast stud-sail, 194.
Making sail, 299.

Man overboard, 391.
Marine necessaries, 240.
Marling spikes, 165.
Massie's pump, 54.

Masting ships, 125. Masting or dismast-
ing with one's own resources, 128.
Masts, 115. Single tree, 115. Made
masts, 115. Hoops, 115. Hounding,
and housing, 115. Top-masts, 115.
Lower caps, 119. Eye bolts, 119.
Bowsprit caps, 119. Top-mast caps,
119. Yards, 119. Quarter-irons, 119.
Lower and top-sail yards, 119. Lower
cross-trees, 119. Tops, 121. Top-mast
cross-trees, 121. Fids, 121. Top-gal-
lant fids, 123. Average value of spars,
123. Weight and dimensions of spars,
124, 125. Masting, 125. Handling a
bowsprit, 129. Fishes, 131. Lower
mast sprung, or wounded below the
head, 132. Fishing bowsprits and lower
yards, 132. Lightning conductors, 133.
To rig a lower mast, 156. Hoisting in
spare spars, 232. Shifting top-gallant
masts, 410. And top-masts, 410.
Materials, amount of, in a 120-gun ship,

Measures and weights, 308.

Mechanical Powers, 85. Gravity, 85.

Direction of a force, 85. Forces in
equilibrium, 85. Velocity, 85. Prin-
cipal moving powers, 86. A unit of
work, 87. The lever or handspike, 90,
91. Compound lever, 94. Wheel and
axle, 95. Tackles, 100. Inclined plane,
104. Wedge, 105. Screw, 105. The
crane, 106. The compound wheel and
axle, 107. Friction, 107. Cutting away
masts, 416.

Messes, expense of, Admiralty Circular
on, 446. Article from the "Times," 447.

Ordnance, 245. Gun metal, 245. Gun
carriages, 246. Parts of a carronade,
247. Mortars, 250. Proof charges of
brass guns, 250. And of iron guns, 251.
Gunpowder, 252. Cartridges, 253. Di-
mensions of powder packages,_253.
Shell, 254. Blue lights, 254. Long
lights, 254. Slow match, 254. Port
fires, 255. Bickford's fuse, 255. Signal
rockets, 255. Congreve rockets, 255.
Carcasses, 255. Tubes, 255. Gun
cotton, 256. Field-piece carriages, 256.
Elevation of a 9-pounder brass field
carriage, 257. Plan of a 9-pounder
brass field carriage, 258. Weight and
dimensions of small arms now in use in
British service, 259. Shot of various
kinds, 260. Getting in guns, 260. To
rig a yard purchase, 261.

Organisation, 320. Berthing, 320. Ham-
mocks, 321. Bags, 321. Clothing, 322.
Watch quarter and station bill, 322.
Form of watch bill, 324. Conduct
book, 327. Routine, 329. Meals, 331.
Cleaning decks, 331. Sunday, 333.
Outhauler, the, 186.
Oxygen, 2.